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Build Back Better Sector Guide Volume 5: Social Infrastructure

28 March 2025
This presentation outlines strategies and considerations for enhancing social infrastructure resilience and recovery in the aftermath of disasters.
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

Lessons from BBB Approach from ADB’s School Reconstruction Support

28 March 2025
This presentation gives an overview of the "Build Back Better" approach used by the ADB to reconstruct schools
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

A Comparative Analysis of Tax Administration in Asia and the Pacific: Eighth Edition

27 January 2025
This report tracks tax revenue collection in 45 economies in Asia and the Pacific and highlights opportunities for revenue bodies to tighten governance, accountability, and data collection to help strengthen their vital tax systems. Drawing on data from the International Survey on Revenue…

Increasing the resilience of Transport Networks

10 October 2024
This presentation discussed the transport networks and impacts of disasters on road networks.

Applying a trauma informed approach to disaster

10 October 2024
This presentation discussed trauma-informed approach to disaster on transport systems.

Exchange of Information Handbook

1 August 2024
This handbook provides practical guidance for policymakers, decision-takers, and other practitioners who need to engage with the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes.

Protecting Climate Finance from Corruption

15 March 2024
When governance fails, the consequences can derail entire nations from their development paths. How can development professionals protect projects from corruption? Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journalist Bradley’s Hope, answers.

Presentation on open-source climate and disaster risk modelling as a public-good service

15 February 2024
Overview of the Global Risk Modellinig Alliance Programme which aims to build local capabilities in risk understanding.

A Guide on Estimating the Revenue Losses from Various Tax Concessions

17 January 2024
Tax systems are designed to collect revenues to finance public expenditures in the most efficient manner. Since taxes constitute a price on economic activity, the tax structure should aim to collect taxes fairly and efficiently. In addition to raising revenues for financing public expenditures,…

Three Tools for Taking on Climate-Induced Fiscal Risk

10 January 2024
Policymakers in the Asia and the Pacific have powerful tools available to identify funding gaps, optimize resource allocation, and enhance resilience against the looming fiscal challenges of climate change.